Junior doctors of King George Medical University again went on flash strike on Monday, reiterating their demands of fresh probe into the case of clash between junior doctors and a patient's attendants in October last year. The second day of strike paralysed the medical services in Medicine Department of the university. The doctors, however, called off the strike by evening, resuming work.

The doctors had gone on a similar strike on Sunday, calling it off late in the evening after assurance from vice-chancellor D K Gupta as well as district administration officials that their demands will be looked into.

As per senior doctors of the department, though senior resident doctors and junior doctors of third year were still working, only critical patients were being admitted in the Gandhi ward, the main hospital wing of the Internal Medicine Department while the less serious patients were being referred to Balrampur Hospital or Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Civil Hospital. In the emergency ward of Medicine Department at Trauma Center, less number of patients were coming as people knew of the strike.

"While the number of admission of patients in the Medicine Department were less than usual days, things were being managed efficiently by the doctors on duty and there has been no mortality reported. The doctors made sure that the patients did not suffer," said A A Mahdi, spokesperson of the university. He said that only the junior doctors of first and second year of Medicine Department were on strike on Monday, while the third-year junior residents and senior residents and faculty members were all on duty.

"They were demanding a fresh probe in the case as well as quashing of the case, which can only be done through a legal process. They want the police officer who had registered the case and conducted the inquiry to be suspended," said Mahdi.

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